From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 5 14:39:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C59216A41F for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:39:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stewart@nameless-uk.com) Received: from mail.squidge.com (mail0.squidge.com [195.10.252.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C81243D49 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:39:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stewart@nameless-uk.com) Received: from [10.0.2.15] (nameless-uk.demon.co.uk [62.49.20.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.squidge.com (8.13.4/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j75EdCBH054488 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:39:12 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42F37A0F.5080307@nameless-uk.com> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:39:11 +0100 From: Stewart Morgan Organization: Nameless Media Group Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vittorio De Martino References: <42DC14FE0003EB30@ims1d.cp.tin.it> <200507291725.33854.vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it> In-Reply-To: <200507291725.33854.vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS at mail.squidge.com X-Spam-Level: -2.8 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with booting & MBR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stewart@nameless-uk.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:39:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Vittorio De Martino wrote: | # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 | fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory | | and with | | # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad1 | fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad1: No such file or directory I think this is because you're in multi-user mode and the drives are in use (things mounted). You might have better luck in single-user mode. Stewart, - - - Stewart Morgan MEng MIEE Technical Director, Nameless-UK Phone : +44 870 757 1625 | Address: The Production House Fax : +44 870 168 0210 | 147a Saint Michael's Hill PGP ID: 0xECD5CE64 | Bristol, BS2 8DB, UK - - --------------------------x------------------------------------- PGP Fingerprint: 89DE F8C3 CA14 598C 30DB 504A 3055 DDD7 ECD5 CE64 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC83oPMFXd1+zVzmQRAnwFAKCnzTn3Ra6V4wZjVkXGOcP5+9AlSQCeKh29 HteCD/v+xHKpYLU6adp2FEo= =wG+l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----